Adam Gase insists Dolphins haven't quit on this season

Despite going through a five-game losing streak and their playoff dreams all but over, Miami Dolphins head coach Adam Gase said on Monday that his players are still playing hard.

“Yes, I think our guys have done a good job,” Gase said. “They’ve been through a lot of different things this year, and every day, when we come back to practice on Wednesday, you’re seeing guys that are really putting a lot of effort into practice to get better. You can tell. I’ve been through it before. I’ve watched it. I’ve seen when guys, when they quit. I’ve seen when guys don’t practice hard and basically throw their hands up and really don’t care, and you see those guys be eliminated from the NFL very quickly. I watch our guys in practice, and I see the energy level, I see the way they try to execute, I see them in meetings. Guys are trying to do things right.”

Miami ranks near the bottom of virtually every offensive category. The Dolphins are also ranked 21st in total defense as they’re allowing 346.3 yards per game. The team also has a -115 point differential, which is 31st in the NFL.

At 4-7, Gase says the team is just going to focus on one game at a time.

“There’s really nothing you can do more than that,” Gase said. “It’s about going back to work. It’s about correcting the things we know we can correct. It’s about taking the non-talent things and making sure those are perfect and then when we get into a game, we have to carry that over from practice. When we play a team like we just did, that is going to do things at an extremely high level, we have to make sure that we’re on it and we do things right.”

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